valley
/ˈvæli/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
noun
Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
Example Sentences
- "The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization."
- "[I]t sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and water-courses even as I have heard the carbonic acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do."
- "The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west."
- "Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys."
- "These hues of red rose and green and pale green, ruffled and pouted in the billowy white of the dress ballooning and valleying softly, like a yacht before the sail bends low; […]"
- "Over Govino Bay, looking up from the water’s edge, the landscape resembles nothing so much as the hills above Genova, valleying into the sea, […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: valeye, valey, valee, vallēs
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvæli/
- British English: /ˈvæli/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Aber Valley
Aire Valley
Alfeios Valley
Alpheus Valley
Amargosa Valley
Angas Valley
Arcadia Valley
Back Valley